Archives September 2013

Rock and Roll!
On October 1st, Guitar Wolf, purportedly one of the loudest bands in the world, will be hitting the Hard Luck Bar in downtown Toronto. The intimate location will be playing host to the Nagasaki-born band and if you go be sure to bring some earplugs!
The trio made up of Seiji, the frontman,...

By Kaori Fujishima and Riku Kaneko
If you love Japanese food, there’s a great place in downtown Toronto we can recommend.
Located inside The Village by the Grange on McCaul Street, Manpuku serves delicious home-style Japanese food. The owner Sakiko Ichihara, who is just 29 years old, says the number...

By Kaori Fujishima
Contemporary Japanese Literature is changing every day, and three writers visited the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre recently to discuss what's happening in Japanese literature.
Monkey Business is the only English literary journal that publishes contemporary Japanese Literature....

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Over the next few days, Nikkei Voice will be giving away tickets to Tug of War!, which will be playing at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on October 24th.
The movie is set in Oita, a small prefecture in Japan and it follows a group of eclectic semi-athletes as they...

By Robert Doi
Following a frantic and tight conclusion to the regular season, the play-offs have also featured some extremely close games.
The quarter-finals saw Jon Nagamatsu’s Wietzes Toyota team defeat Mike Ogino’s Birchmount Collision team 33 – 32 and Glen Kawaguchi’s Dundee Private...

By Miki Nomura
On Sunday in the heart of downtown Toronto, the sound of taiko - Japanese drums - filled the air. The beating of the drums grabbed a captive audience's attention making them gaze onto the stage at Yonge and Dundas Square.
There were nine women beating the drums with both power and enthusiasm....

By Mizuki Ogi
You might be thinking, what is Rakugo?
Rakugo is a 400-year-old tradition of comic storytelling in Japan. Storytellers, wearing kimonos and brandishing fans and a hand towels as props, kneel down on a zabuton (a Japanese cushion) and engage the audience in elaborate skits. Depending...

By Ian Harvey
Leslie Helm’s Yokohama Yankee is an intimate memoir of his Japanese heritage and the rise and fall of his family’s businesses over five generations. But below the surface, it’s a narrative that operates on many more levels.
On one plane, it is the painful journey to understand...

By Dr. Ailin Oishi-Stamatiou
Urinary incontinence is a problem that increases with age affecting 30 per cent of seniors living in the community and between 50-84 per cent living in long-term care facilities. Women are three times more likely than men to be incontinent, due to the physical stresses...

By Jason Kwan
Hovering at around 20 establishments, the row of restaurants and cafes on Baldwin Street is a very competitive landscape. Ryu’s Noodle Bar is a new entrant in the quickly exploding ramen market in Toronto and opened its doors in July 2013 just a hundred feet away from one of its well-known...